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From: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
To: Song Hongyan <hongyan.song@intel.com>,
	linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org
Cc: jikos@kernel.org, jic23@kernel.org, srinivas.pandruvada@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iio: hid: hid-sensor-accel-3d: Add second ACC sensor support
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 13:01:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1489665702.18490.12.camel@hadess.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1489659652-35608-1-git-send-email-hongyan.song@intel.com>

On Thu, 2017-03-16 at 18:20 +0800, Song Hongyan wrote:
> As accelerometer sensor becomes more and more popular, there are more
> user scenarios have been developed, "Hinge" is a very important
> usecase
> which needs two accelerometer sensors to calculate the included angle
> of keyboard and screen.
> In this case, two accelerometer sensors will be exposed. Currently,
> IIO interface hasn't other way to distinguish two sensors with same
> sensor type, except sensor name. So a new sensor name "accel_2nd_3d"
> is added for secondary accelerometer sensor.
> 
> In HID level, connection type is a good common property to
> differentiate two sensors with same sensor type.

I've been told in the past not to rely on device names in iio-sensor-
proxy, and this would go against this advice.

As you have a "type" to export, why not export that instead?

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-16 12:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-16 10:20 [PATCH] iio: hid: hid-sensor-accel-3d: Add second ACC sensor support Song Hongyan
2017-03-16 10:20 ` Song Hongyan
2017-03-16 12:01 ` Bastien Nocera [this message]
     [not found]   ` <1489665702.18490.12.camel-0MeiytkfxGOsTnJN9+BGXg@public.gmane.org>
2017-03-17  1:21     ` Song, Hongyan
2017-03-17  1:21       ` Song, Hongyan
2017-03-17 13:14       ` Bastien Nocera
     [not found] ` <1489659652-35608-1-git-send-email-hongyan.song-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2017-03-17  2:13   ` Pandruvada, Srinivas
2017-03-17  2:13     ` Pandruvada, Srinivas
2017-03-17 13:16     ` Bastien Nocera
     [not found]       ` <1489756594.18490.22.camel-0MeiytkfxGOsTnJN9+BGXg@public.gmane.org>
2017-03-17 13:31         ` Jonathan Cameron
2017-03-17 13:31           ` Jonathan Cameron
2017-03-17 16:22       ` Pandruvada, Srinivas
2017-03-17 16:22         ` Pandruvada, Srinivas
2017-03-18  0:24         ` Milton Mobley

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